Re: Display dialog frontmost?
Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- Subject: Re: Display dialog frontmost?
- From: Steven Angier <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 16:00:47 +1000
On 13/9/02 3:04 PM, "bill fancher" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 07:03 PM, Steven Angier wrote:
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> When the AppleScript-based solution that your company just paid
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> $20,000 for,
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> and which drives a mission-critical part of your business has a
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> problem.
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Your company's problem dates from the time it paid $20000 for a
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"solution" that cripples the business if you spend too long in the
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bathroom.
Just the opposite is true. The AppleScript through up a dialog to tell the
operator of a major problem and, after waiting 30 seconds, dismissed the
dialog and got on with things (sent alert emails, Timbuktu flashnotes,
restarted the box, whatever).
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> OS 9 doesn't have a dock with bouncing icons in it.
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Notifications are preferred there, I believe. They were implemented for
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the very situation we're discussing to address the very objections I've
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voiced.
Notifications have never been implemented for AppleScript (at least not by
Apple).
Steven Angier
Macscript.com
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